Category: vision
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September Program: Metro Washington Association of Blind Athletes
Our guest speaker, Karla Gilbride, is a co-founder of the Metro Washington Association of Blind Athletes. After participating in a similar organization in San Francisco after college, she moved to DC and did not find any similar multi-sport clubs for the blind here, so decided to found one of her own with a fellow blind…
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Lions Mobile Health Unit at Montgomery County Fair
On Tuesday, August 18 the Sandy Spring Lions Club conducted free vision, hearing, and glaucoma screenings in the Lions Community Outreach Foundation Mobile Health Unit at the Montgomery County Fair. We began screening at 10:00 am and continued on until 5:00 pm. Since Tuesday was Senior Citizens Day, the majority of our screening clients were senior citizens. This was…
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Free Health Screening in Olney
The Sandy Spring Lions held a screening event on Friday, May 15 and Saturday, May 16 in the Olney Village Shopping Center. The event was sponsored by EyeWorks Vision Care Center and was held in the Lions District 22-C Mobile Health Unit. EyeWorks made promotional coupons available to all who were screened. A total of…
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Sandy Spring Lions Serve at NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo
The Sandy Spring Lions Club has a long history of working at local and regional health fairs providing health screenings. Our history continued this year at the NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo at the Washington Convention Center on January 10, 2015. Nine Lions attended, including three Past District Governors, the current King Lion and two…
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Lions Provide Free Health Screenings in Olney
The Sandy Spring Lions Club and EyeWorks Vision Care Center co-hosted a screening event at Olney Village Center on Friday, May 30 and Saturday, May 31, 2014. Using the Mobile Health Unit provided by the District 22C Lions Community Outreach Foundation, the Lions provided free vision, hearing, and glaucoma screenings to members of the public from 10:00 AM to 4:00…
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